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According to TVGuide.com, there’s more evidence that the end is near for 24. Howard Gordon, the show’s executive producer, has already lined up his next project.
Gordon will produce the Israeli series Prisoners of War for U.S. audiences. In the Israeli drama, three soldiers return home after being held captive in Syria for 17 years. The U.S. import, tentatively titled Patriots, will center on three American soldiers presumed dead after the 2003 invasion in Iraq, but are found to be alive in a cave 10 years later.
Alex Gansa, another 24 producer, and show’s creator, Gideon Raff, will write the pilot with Gordon. The American version will also feature a new character, a counterterrorism agent, who won’t be jack Bauer.
According to Variety, 24’s time is almost up.
The trade magazine claims that 20th Century Fox TV and Fox are ready to end the long-running hit after this season.
Though the network has declined to comment on the speculation, it would not come as a huge surprise.The cost of producing 24 has increased each season while the rating have dropped.
Even if 24 is canceled, there is a possibility that the the franchise will move to the big screen. The team behind the show, including Kiefer Sutherland, have made major strides in recent months toward a 24 movie a la Sex And The City. There’s also talk that the film version would take Jack Bauer to Europe.
Shows in general are getting old. Some are even leaving, like Lost. With NBC in shambles and basically out of the ratings picture besides Thursday nights, the other big networks are left to battle for the wandering viewers. The cable networks are actually capitalizing on these “lost” viewers, coming up with new shows like Burn Notice and Caprica. But while we might give the new shows a couple of episodes or a season trial, we still want the “lock-of-the-week”, a show or shows that we know will leave us satisfied. But it seems like the industry is transitioning. There are new shows, new players and its just coming down to attrition. It’s only a matter of time before series like 24 and others fade out into the distance.
Is Jack Bauer, dare I say, happy in season 8 of 24? The latest promo for season 8 shows a smiley Jack laughing with his daughter Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) and playing with his granddaughter.
But don’t worry, this softer, kinder Bauer doesn’t seem to last for long. The promo also shows “The Shield’s” Benito Martinez as the man who lures Jack back into the terrorism-fighting business and more of the New York CTU (including a shot of Freddie Prinze Jr.). Thankfully there are few familiar faces back too, like Chloe (Mary Lynn Rajskub) and President Taylor (cherry Jones).
Just when you thought it was safe to believe in your president…he returns to the spotlight.
No, I’m not talking about French politics, I’m talking about the dastardly U.S. president, Charles Logan, from Fox’s real-time action hit 24.
Gregory Itzin played the nefarious head of state in 24 and was nominated for an Emmy award for his initial performance. He recently signed on for a multi-episode arc on the upcoming eighth season. Logan was last seen during Season 6 when the former president was flatlining en route to a hospital after being stabbed by his emotionally unstable wife, Martha Logan (played brilliantly by Jean Smart). During the opening of Season 7, Agent Renee Walker (Annie Wersching) told Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) that Logan was alive and still serving under house arrest in Colorado. He was never seen nor heard from again.
“24″ doesn’t return until January 2010 but FOX is already teasing us with a first look at Day 8.
Jack Bauer has another very long day in front of him. This time, he is trying to save the president of a middle eastern country who is about to be assassinated at the U.N. This also means most of the day will take place in New York City.
All week, the networks will be unveiling their fall schedules at the Upfronts in NYC. The upfronts are basically meetings between television network executives with the press, show stars and advertisers. It gives advertisers a chance to buy commercial airtime before the season starts in the fall. This morning Fox announced their line-up.
The network is introducing six new shows, the musical “Glee”, three comedies, the animated “The Cleveland Show”, “Brothers”, “Sons of Tucson” and two dramas, dramas “Human Target” and “Past Life”.
The network is also introducing a few scheduling changes. “Lie to Me” will follow “House” on Monday nights, while “Fringe” movies to Thursdays, where it will follow “Bones.”
“So You Think You Can Dance,” which has its Season 5 premiere Thursday, will have its first shot at the fall season while “Dollhouse” was given a second chance on Friday nights.
“Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” “Sit Down, Shut Up” and “Do Not Disturb” were all cancelled.
As we found out in the last episode, Jack has been contaminated, and the CDC shows up to find out exactly what he’s been into. He’s not yet showing any symptoms, which is rather ominous of what’s to come. Testing will take about 15 minutes, and in the interim jack wants to go to the FBI.
Meanwhile, the canisters filled with the bioweapon show up at Starkwood, as does Tony, who was previously captured. Hodges wants the weapon to be deployed yesterday and two hours to set it up is too long. Unsurprisingly, Tony gets beat up a bit, and Hodges says he will keep him alive if he talks, but Tony refuses (I’m sure he was doubtful as to whether he’ll actually be kept alive). Greg Seaton shows up and wants the plan to be called off, but Hodges is determined to go through with it.
The FBI is still on the look out for Jack, and Larry gets on the horn to talk to Ethan and informs him that Mayer (the Senator) dead. Unfortunately for Jack, they think that he killed him. Ethan isn’t pleased at all with Larry letting Jack get away and murdering the Senator. Larry points out that he told Ethan to leave Jack out of this in the first place. Realizing this, Ethan submits his resignation.
So now we have Jack, who’s once again a fugitive, heading for the garage to make his escape. Morris O’Brian shows up at the FBI wanting to know where his wife is. He finds that Chloe has been arrested. Larry calls Janis and then tells her that Ryan Burnett was killed, and our main man Jack is the best lead they have for a suspect. Renee is filing paperwork for her suspension, and asks what’s going on.
Renee goes back to her …
